Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cordial made from the fermented juice and crushed pits of marasca cherries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cordial originating in Dalmatia, where it is distilled from or flavored with the marasca cherry, peculiar to that region; hence, a similar cordial produced in other regions from other kinds of cherry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sweet
liqueur made frommarasca cherries
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur
- noun distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Steep them for three hours in a plateful of weak kirsch, or maraschino, that is slightly warmed.
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That's because the "maraschino" in the Floridita recipe is not a processed cherry but, rather, a colorless liqueur made from marasca cherries grown on Italy's Dalmatian coast.
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Further Addendum: (see comment in response to Matthew, below) If you search this blog for "maraschino" you will find an update.
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Further Addendum: (see comment in response to Matthew, below) If you search this blog for "maraschino" you will find an update.
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Further Addendum: see comment in response to Matthew, below If you search this blog for "maraschino" you will find an update.
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If you search the blog for "maraschino", you can find an update.
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Further Addendum: see comment in response to Matthew, below If you search this blog for "maraschino" you will find an update.
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“I like to tell people a maraschino is the nutritional equivalent of a LifeSaver,” says Josh Reynolds, vice president of Gray & Company, the world’s biggest maraschino cherry manufacturer.
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“I like to tell people a maraschino is the nutritional equivalent of a LifeSaver,” says Josh Reynolds, vice president of Gray & Company, the world’s biggest maraschino cherry manufacturer.
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“I like to tell people a maraschino is the nutritional equivalent of a LifeSaver,” says Josh Reynolds, vice president of Gray & Company, the world’s biggest maraschino cherry manufacturer.
oroboros commented on the word maraschino
Anagram of 'harmonicas'
December 5, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word maraschino
What harmonitics?
August 24, 2017